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Connecticut woman blows off fingers after mistaking dynamite for candle
ABC 7 New York ^ | September 7, 2018

Posted on 09/07/2018 10:12:43 AM PDT by SMGFan

A woman was seriously injured in Connecticut after authorities say she mistook a stick of dynamite for a candle.

(Excerpt) Read more at abc7ny.com ...


TOPICS: Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: boxofrocks; dumbasarock; dynamite; oops
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To: antidemoncrat

“You generally don’t arm one until ready to use it.”

I think it depends on what part of Connecticut the woman was from. Some areas...heck, you may need one at a moment’s notice and can’t be bothered with taking the time to arm it.


61 posted on 09/07/2018 11:44:10 AM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: SMGFan

She lost out on a Darwin by surviving and already having kids.


62 posted on 09/07/2018 11:48:13 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: PGR88

Bed Bath and Kaboom.


63 posted on 09/07/2018 11:50:12 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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To: tired&retired

I have it on good authority that’s a good way to smuggle dope into Islamic countries. Or was back in the 1980s.


64 posted on 09/07/2018 11:53:11 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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To: Safetgiver

Dynamite sounds a lot more scary than firecracker...you can always trust our news media to lie and distort the truth.


65 posted on 09/07/2018 12:19:12 PM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority STILL Stands With TRUMP! WWG1WGA)
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To: MplsSteve
I think it depends on what part of Connecticut the woman was from. Some areas...heck, you may need one at a moment’s notice and can’t be bothered with taking the time to arm it.

I've heard that works when you're fishing.

66 posted on 09/07/2018 12:19:50 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: SMGFan

I always have a stick of dynamite next to my emergency candles. Don’t you?


67 posted on 09/07/2018 12:19:56 PM PDT by livius
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To: dead

These are called seal bombs where I come from. Commercial fishermen throw them into the water to keep the seals away from the nets and eating the salmon.


68 posted on 09/07/2018 12:32:52 PM PDT by beelzepug (The permanent political class that runs this country is...the great(est) danger we face)
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To: Safetgiver

Have you seen the pneumatic caps and detonator?


69 posted on 09/07/2018 12:38:54 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: pepsi_junkie

Candle wicks and dynamite fuses are very different. Anly a fool would confuse them. Nobody would would put a short fuse and a cap into a stick of dynamite unless there were malicious intent.

I think there is more to the story.


70 posted on 09/07/2018 12:42:22 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

That’s what I’m thinking. An M-80 or something. I guess if the lights were out I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt. And as bad as blowing your fingers off is - doing it in the dark to add to the stress and difficulty of first aid!

At my daughter’s college they have a website for students that I get notified on. Books for sale, apartments, etc. The other day some girl posted: “Lost my keys! Does anybody have a Ford Explorer XLT so I can make a copy?”

I asked my college-aged son if he thought she was serious or just goofing around. He shook his head with a smirk “No - she’s serious.”


71 posted on 09/07/2018 12:49:48 PM PDT by 21twelve
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To: pgkdan

“Oh here they are. And they’re all the way from Rome!”


72 posted on 09/07/2018 12:52:23 PM PDT by 21twelve
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To: SMGFan
DynoMite...

Tip, when storing dynamite, make sure you don't put it near the candles...

73 posted on 09/07/2018 12:53:59 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: GingisK

No. Never have.


74 posted on 09/07/2018 2:03:23 PM PDT by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: bigbob

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtLbE3IUY2U


75 posted on 09/07/2018 2:09:52 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SMGFan

Scary!


76 posted on 09/07/2018 2:49:59 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: IronJack

Yah, a birthday cake for a teenager could take out a city block!


77 posted on 09/07/2018 2:58:13 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (12:01 PM 1/20/2017...The end of an error.)
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To: SMGFan

Her fingers were blown off by the blasting cap.

Had it been dynamite, her arm would be gone


78 posted on 09/07/2018 3:02:51 PM PDT by bert ((KE. N.P. Neverthe less, they are co N.C. +12) Muller..... conspiracy to over throw the government)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar; healy61
M-80?
M-80s were always described as 1/4 stick of dynamite, they did have a fuse coming out the middle of a grey cylinder maybe 4 inches long but whether we got them in the states or Mexico they were pretty much a dud.

Maybe 4 firecrackers for the bang. Still even holding onto a single firecracker when it explodes is going to hurt.

When our family put in a pool - actually a steel stock tank they had dynamite to take out some granite.

I stole a couple of sticks and some blasting caps and kept them together in my lockbox in my room.

I do not know how my dad found them but I can assure you I got the beating of my life for that one.

79 posted on 09/07/2018 7:47:16 PM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: SMGFan

My family and I keep open sticks of dynamite in the house. Don’t all of you do the same too?


80 posted on 09/09/2018 7:57:07 AM PDT by dowcaet
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